Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Casket Girl by Maggie Mae Gallagher

Casket Girl

by Maggie Mae Gallagher

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GENRE: Paranormal Romantic
Suspense

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BLURB:

All he wants is to
find a killer...

FBI Special Agent
Josh Blake has seen some bizarre cases in his day. His latest case is one for
the record books. He has multiple homicides, corpses drained of every ounce of
blood, and no suspects. When rumors surface that the French Quarter may be
hiding an insidious monster bent on drenching the streets in dead bodies, he
must suspend logic and place his trust in the mystical.

She wants a fresh
start...

Isabelle Toussánt
left her family home in the bayou five year ago, cutting all ties with her
abusive whiskey swilling stepfather, to forge a new life in the French Quarter.
Now a successful business owner of Madam Toussánt’s Mystical Gifts in Jackson
Square, and a Seer with voodoo roots. The foundation of her new life shatters
when one of her employee’s winds up dead and she is dragged into a deadly game
where she becomes the target of a serial killer.

A passion neither
expected...

Determined to stop
the brutal slayings, Josh must rely on the beautiful Isabelle who makes him
question everything he has ever known about life and death all while
surrendering to a desire hotter than a Bayou night. When Isabelle disappears
without a trace, with tourists flocking to the party capital for Halloween, and
the body count continues to mount, Josh will be forced to push beyond the
boundaries of what he thinks is possible and rescue the woman he loves before
it's too late.

She swung around, her long dark hair, the silky wave of it,
shimmering and rippling as she faced the captain. Josh took one look at Miss
Isabelle Toussánt and felt like a thoroughbred had just kicked him in the
stomach.

She was exotic, with caramel skin and looking taut and lean
in her formfitting tank that displayed delicate arms. He sucked in a sharp
breath when she glanced at the captain. Cat eyes. The mahogany color reminded
Josh of his chestnut mare as a child, Daisy. They were framed by black brows.
One of them was currently raised in his direction as she spoke to the captain.

“Yes, Captain Tremayne? Can I interest you in a cup of
coffee?” Her voice reminded him of a shot of smooth, single malt whiskey.

“Miss Toussánt, this is Agent Josh Blake with the FBI. He
has some questions, if you’re up for them.”

A wounded shadow passed through her magnetic eyes for a moment
before she shifted her gaze toward him. The unabridged effect of her stare was
electric and compelling, until he found himself immersed in her eyes.
Unexpected lust zinged along his spine, not that he would give in to the
temptation she presented, but his body resonated with the siren’s call her body
echoed.

“Agent, can I interest you in some coffee?” She held up a
glass carafe of steaming brew, already half empty.

“Not right now, Miss Toussánt. Thank you for the offer,
though,” he murmured gently but firmly. It smelled like heaven, but he didn’t
want to coddle her. She needed to understand he was in charge and would dig
into her background no matter how sweetly her hips swished as she walked.

“Please call me Isabelle,” she offered with a slight smile,
but it didn’t spread to her eyes. No amount of coffee or alcohol would erase
the vision of death. He knew what that first time was like, though, the horror
of it, the way it twisted your insides. Seeing for the first time how fragile
life truly was made you face your own mortality. And, more important, you began
to understand that some individuals just wanted to watch the world burn.

“Is there somewhere we can talk privately?” he asked,
assessing her response, both verbal and non-verbal, ignoring the intense desire
churning in his gut as he studied her. If there was one thing Miss Toussánt
was, it was off-limits. It didn’t matter how long it had been since he’d done
the horizontal tango. If there was one thing he was strictly by the book on, it
was that he never blurred the lines in a case. The evidence either convicted a
person or set them free. As it was, she was a witness to a horrific murder,
possibly more.

There was something off about her that he couldn’t quite put
his finger on. The way her eyes darted nervously around, and she kept wetting
her pouty bottom lip. It could be signs of trauma and shock from discovering
the body, or it could be she was hiding something. Perhaps she’d witnessed the
incident and feared the killer would come back for her if he knew.

“Certainly, follow me.” Isabelle returned the carafe to the
coffeemaker, wiped her palms along her skirt and nodded toward a doorway in the
far corner.

He would have followed her into hell if it meant listening
to her sultry voice some more and siphoning whatever information she had on
this case.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Born in St.
Louis, Missouri, Maggie grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading
anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only
she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the
romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Maggie never
did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of
Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.

Maggie is a
bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She
also writes erotic romance under the name Anya Summers. A total geek at her
core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending
time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry
felines.

Visit her
website here:

www.maggiemaegallagher.com

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social media here:

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Twitter:
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